Tag: Mothers Day

When I was a child, my mother would invite over some thirty people and cook for fifty. Five minutes before the guests' arrival, panic would set in, and she would instruct me not to eat any food until they left, lest the feast come short. After the grand departure, she would over...

There is some unwritten statute of limitations on how long one can whine about a crappy childhood, a negligent parent, a few too many chicken pot pies, summers with the grandparents, days spent on Greyhound buses and with dubious caregivers and creepy neighbors. There is just a...

Mother's Day is not exactly a Jewish holiday, but it does provide an occasion to consider whether anything new can be noted in that old war-horse, the Jewish mother joke. Surprisingly, I do note several new wrinkles that help explain why even now this Borscht-belt holdover is not...

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